This time from OperaWire. I continue to be very pleased at the thoughtfulness of these reviews and the extent to which they really get what I'm trying to do-- such an audience is the best any creative person could wish for. Hoping for more like this!

I'm delighted to announce that a new work of mine for SSAA treble choir will be performed by the SF-based ensemble Musae on May 4 and 5, in Walnut Creek and Tiburon respectively:

https://www.musae.org/current-season.html

The piece is called “One Equal Music” and sets a text by John Donne. Musae is a terrific group and I'm very much looking forward to the premiere.

I talked to Chris Munce about All is Mere Breath, Hebrew as a choral language generally, and my composing approach and plans. It was a fun time. Check it out on YouTube: 

There's a new review up of my Navona album of “All is Mere Breath” as part of Gramophone Magazine's February issue:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/weininger-all-is-mere-breath

I'm delighted and honored to say that it's all I could have hoped for. The reviewer clearly gets what I was trying to do with the piece and thinks that I've succeeded in doing that. I wrote it hoping it could bridge some of 2020's terrible gaps and make us feel less alone in our experience, and here I am feeling less alone reading about how someone else perceived it. Feeling grateful, and now determined to “send out my bread upon the waters” some more.

Happy 2024, everyone. May it be a year of meaningful musicmaking for all of us.

Just before the end of last year, I got the great news that my piece "Lecha Dodi", a setting of the classic Hebrew poem that compares the Sabbath metaphorically to a beautiful bride, had won the Cincinnati Camerata's 2023 Composition Contest. The Cincinnati Camerata will premiere the piece in their spring concert on Sunday, April 28, at 3 PM in the historic Isaac M. Wise Temple in downtown Cincinnati. I plan to make the trip to attend and I'd love to see you there if you're in the area!